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Originally Posted by I, Brian One thing about the books - buggers.
It seems such a tongue-in-cheek word for an alien race - I wasn't too sure if I was supposed to be taking the story seriously when I read this - as if Card was making a very profound statement usnig Yorkshire-slang, but I just couldn't figure out what it was. |
Yeah, I wondered about his choice of terminology, too. I kind of doubt that it was a double-entendre, though. I think it mostly was just picked because the aliens looked like bugs to humans. Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of SF writers, though.
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Only SF would have two streams of sequels...
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Yeah, that's true. On the whole, though, I think the first book of the second stream, "Ender's Shadow", was an interesting and largely successful experiment. It asked and answered the question, "Can a writer retell a story he's already written from a different point of view and get people to actually read it?" As I said in my review of the book, it is a good read. It approaches the story from a different enough perspective - and begins with a fairly thorough telling of the story of how Bean ended up in Battle School - that it stands up even if you've read "Ender's Game". I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about the two sequels, even though they go on to explore the story after the events in "Game" and "Shadow".